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Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic and essayist whose work focuses on sexual politics, gender issues, aesthetics, popular culture, and pornography. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays.〔http://www.vdb.org/artists/laura-kipnis〕 She is a professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Radio-TV-Film, where she teaches filmmaking. Kipnis earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She also studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Studio Program. She has received fellowships for her work from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows,〔http://societyoffellows.umich.edu/alumni-fellows/〕 and the National Endowment for the Arts. In her 2003 book ''Against Love: A Polemic'', a "ragingly witty yet contemplative look at the discontents of domestic and erotic relationships, Kipnis combines portions of the slashing sexual contrarianism of Mailer, the scathing antidomestic wit of early Roseanne Barr and the coolly analytical aesthetics of early Sontag."〔(''Publisher's Weekly'' (30 June 2003). )〕 In 2010 she published ''How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior'', which focused on scandal, including those of Eliot Spitzer, Linda Tripp, James Frey, Sol Wachtler, and Lisa Nowak; the book examined "the elaborate ways those transgressors reassure themselves that they are not bringing colossal ruin upon themselves, that their dalliances will never see the light of day". "What allows for scandal in Kipnis's schema is every individual's blind spot, "a little existential joke on humankind (or in some cases, a ticking time bomb) nestled at the core of every lonely consciousness...Ostensibly about scandal, her book is most memorable as a convincing case for the ultimate unknowability of the self". Her critical essays and reviews have appeared in ''Slate'', ''Harper's'', ''Playboy'', ''The New York Times'', and Bookforum. ==Controversy== In March 2015 Kipnis wrote an essay in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'' in which she decried a prevailing "sexual paranoia" on campuses and discussed professor-student sexual relationships and trigger warnings.〔Kipnis, 27 February 2015〕 A group of students at Northwestern protested, demanding that the administration reaffirm its commitment to the policies that Kipnis criticized.〔Goldberg, 16 March 2015〕 Protesters carried a mattress in reference to Emma Sulkowicz's earlier protest at Columbia University.〔Mead, 6 April 2015〕 In an opinion column for ''The Wall Street Journal'', Northwestern University president Morton O. Schapiro referred to the protest and argued for maximum speech in such conflicted situations.〔Morton, 18 March 2015〕 Invoking Title IX, two graduate students filed complaints with Northwestern's Title IX office against Kipnis, arguing that her essay had had a "chilling effect" on students' ability to report sexual misconduct. Kipnis revealed the charges and details of the investigation in an essay titled "My Title IX Inquisition," including the fact that her faculty support person had himself been brought up on Title IX complaints over public statements about her case. Northwestern eventually exonerated her, after a 72-day investigation Title IX complaints were also filed against Northwestern's President Schapiro over his ''Wall Street Journal'' column., but eventually dropped. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Kipnis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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